> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:jenkinsci-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Glick
> Sent: 27 July 2012 21:34
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Verify downloaded jpi-files
>
> On 07/27/2012 08:58 AM, Fredrik Orderud wrote:
> > a simpler check against the in-built JAR/ZIP-file CRC-32 checksum
> > would probably be good enough in most situations
>
> Even simpler: check if the file starts with 0x50 0x4b 0x03 0x04, the ZIP 
> magic. If
> not, it is some junk like an error page which should be treated like a 404 or
> other connection error.
>
> File a bug or open a pull request;
> hudson.model.UpdateCenter.UpdateCenterConfiguration.postValidate could
> easily do this, I think.

Isn’t this a security issue - I thought the update.json was signed to make it 
hard to prevent installing malicious components (but this just prevents the 
main Jenkins site update from being forged - which is no protection at all)
As it stands you don’t need to do anything complex just some dns hijacking of a 
mirror (or attack a mirror, or be an evil mirror) and then you can just replace 
whatever hpi you want (pick a popular one like git or svn) then you can serve 
up any arbitrary code that gets executed?

I guess the update.json needs to include the signatures of components as well 
for this to work (with 3rd party update sites).

To be honest I thought I recalled a discussion that this was already done :-(

/James

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